Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Mach3 & laptops

That is news to me. I have been driving my Taig mill via Mach 3, run
on a laptop for about four years. Initially, I was using Mach 2 on
an old Dell Inspiron with 128mB RAM and Windoze 2000. Latterly I am
using an Advent laptop with Windows XP. No problems noticed once I
had the set up parameters correct. Perhaps I have just been lucky so far.

I do believe that some laptops are limited in the power they put out
at the ports, and hence can not drive the board, but so far the Dell
machines seem to be OK. Trouble is, the latest ones don't come with
parallel ports.

Keith

At 22:12 23/10/2008, you wrote:

>I was looking to set up Mach3 & a Taig with a laptop, and saw on
>Artsoft's website that "Laptops are not supported because the power
>saving features of the chipsets disrupt the pulse stream".
>
>What's the real story here? ALL laptops?? I'm kinda having a hard time
>believing this. Parallel ports are usually designed to... well, /work/
>at transferring data as designed. It's kind hard to even see this
>statement as credible, I mean the explanation borders on the absurd,
>power management and the parallel port datastream are two different
>things. Will this actually not work?
>
>And what's a "non-integrated video card", one that's not on the mb like
>a laptop? Why would that matter?
>
>My laptop does have a parallel port built into it. I could also get a
>USB-to-parallel port cable. That would add the complexity of the
>internal bridge and all but it would use a different data path than the
>internal serial port.
>
>Thanks,
>Danny
>
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